Macbeth Flashcards
Act 1 scene 1 second witch
When the hurly-burly’s done,
When the battle’s lost and won’ (Second Witch)
Act 1 scene 1 third witch
‘There to meet with MacBeth’ (Third Witch)
Act 1 scene 1 all witches.
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’ (Witches)
Act 1 scene 2 captain 2
‘brave MacBeth – well he deserves that name’ (Captain)
Act 1 scene 2 captain 2
Like Valour’s minion carv’d out his passage’ (Captain)
Act 1 scene 2 captain 3
Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps
And fixed his head upon our battlements’ (Captain)
Act 1 scene 2 duncan
Dismay’d not this our captains, MacBeth and Banquo?’ (Duncan)
Act 1 scene 2 captain
Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’ (Captain)
Act 1 scene 2 captain
meant to bathe in reeking wounds
Or memorise another Golgotha’ (Captain)
Act 1 scene 2 captain
Bellona’s bridegroom’ (Captain)
Act 1 scene 2 duncan
Go pronounce his present death
And with his former title greet MacBeth’ (Duncan)
Act 1 scene 3 macbeth
So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)
Act 1 scene 3 banquo
‘Live you, or are you aught
That man may question?’ (Banquo)
Act 1 scene 3 banquo 2
‘you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’ (Banquo
Act 1 scene 3 witches
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.’ (Witches)
Act 1 scene 3 witches 2
‘Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)
Act 1 scene 3 ross
‘He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’
Ross
Act 1 scene 3 macbeth
(Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)
Act 1 scene 3 macbeth
(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)
Act 1 scene 3 macbeth 5
‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’ (MacBeth)
Act 1 scene 4 duncan
- ‘worthiest cousin’ (Duncan)
Act 1 scene 4 macbeth
‘The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 4 macbeth 3
(Aside) ‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’ (Macbeth)
Act 1 scene4 macbeth 4
(Aside) ‘Stars, hide your fires,
Let light not see my black and deep desires’ (Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 5 l.macbeth
yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 5 L.macbeth 2
thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 5 L.macbeth 3
I may pour my spirits in thine ear’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 6 L.mabeth 4
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 5 lady macbeth 5
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 6 l.macbeth 6
Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 5 lady macbeth 7
O, never
Shall sun that morrow see!’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 5 lady macbeth 8
look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 macbeth
‘If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well
It were done quickly’ (Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 macbeth 2
‘we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor’ (Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 macbeth 3
‘our poison’d chalice
To our own lips’ (Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 macbeth 4
‘He’s here in double trust;
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself’ (Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 macbeth 5
‘I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other.’ (Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 macbeth 6
‘We will proceed no further in this business’
Act 1 scene 7 lady macbeth
‘Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dress’d yourself?’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 macbeth
‘I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.’ (Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 lady macbeth 4
‘When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man.’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 lady macbeth 5
- ‘I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 lady macbeth 6
‘If we should fail?’ (Macbeth)
‘We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 1 scene 7 macbeth 6
‘I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know’
(Macbeth)
Act 2 scene 1 macbeth
‘Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?’ (Macbeth)
Act 2 scene 1 macbeth 2
. A bell rings
‘I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.’ (Macbeth)
Act 2 scene 2 ladymacbeth 1
‘Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done’t.’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 2scene 2 macbeth 2
‘I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’
Stuck in my throat.’ (Macbeth)
Act 1 sceene 2 macbeth 4
‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep’ (Macbeth)
Act 2 scene 2 macbeth 6
‘Macbeth shall sleep no more.’ (Macbeth)
Act 2 scene 2 macbeth 7
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?’ (Macbeth)
Act 2 scene 2 Lady
Macbeth 8
‘My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.’ (Lady Macbeth)
Act 2 scene 2 macbeth 9
Knocking within
‘Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!’
(Macbeth)
